God Save Texas: A Journey into the Future of America

'This
is
a
funny,
pointed
love
letter
to
Texas,
at
once
elegiac
and
clear-eyed'
Ben
Macintyre,
The
Times

From
the
Pulitzer
Prize-winning
author
of
The
Looming
Tower,
God
Save
Texas
is
a
journey
through
the
most
controversial
state
in
America.
Texas
is
a
Republican
state
in
the
heart
of
Trumpland
that
hasn't
elected
a
Democrat
to
a
statewide
office
in
more
than
twenty
years;
but
it
is
also
a
state
in
which
minorities
already
form
a
majority
(including
the
largest
number
of
Muslim
adherents
in
the
United
States).
The
cities
are
Democrat
and
among
the
most
diverse
in
the
nation.
Oil
is
still
king
but
Texas
now
leads
California
in
technology
exports
and
has
an
economy
only
somewhat
smaller
than
Australia's.
Lawrence
Wright
has
written
an
enchanting
book
about
what
is
often
seen
as
an
unenchanting
place.
Having
spent
most
of
his
life
there,
while
remaining
deeply
aware
of
its
oddities,
Wright
is
as
charmed
by
Texan
foibles
and
landscapes
as
he
is
appalled
by
its
politics
and
brutality.
With
its
economic
model
of
low
taxes
and
minimal
regulation
producing
both
extraordinary
growth
and
striking
income
disparities,
Texas,
Wright
shows,
looks
a
lot
like
the
America
that
Donald
Trump
wants
to
create.
This
profound
portrait
of
the
state,
completed
just
as
Texas
battled
to
rebuild
after
the
devastating
storms
of
summer
2017,
not
only
reflects
the
United
States
back
as
it
is,
but
as
it
was
and
as
it
might
be.
As
much
the
home
of
Roy
Orbison
and
Willie
Nelson
as
of
J.R.,
Ross
Perot
and
the
Bush
family,
as
filled
with
magical
scenery
as
with
desolate
oil-fields
and
strip-malls,
Texas
is
a
bellwether,
super-sized
mass
of
contradictions:
a
life-long
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